The Saga of Grace Series
The Saga of Grace is a compelling series by author Ronald Chapman that explores the depths of human struggle, spiritual awakening, and societal transformation. Spanning A Killer’s Grace, The Dark Side of Grace, and the powerful third book, The Reckoning of Grace, this series follows investigative journalist Kevin Pitcairn on a journey through trauma, truth, and transcendence. With each book, Chapman weaves a thought-provoking narrative that challenges conventional boundaries and invites readers into a rich, psycho-spiritual exploration of grace in a divided world.
A Killers Grace (Book 1)
Released March 30, 2012
For Kevin Pitcairn, the letter from a serial killer awaiting execution comes with implications he can't ignore. The writer's guilt is clear, at least in a legal sense. But the questions he raises draw Pitcairn into a compelling journey of investigation whose profound psychological and spiritual implications hurl his live into upheaval.
As he tries to determine and tell the killer's true story, Pitcairn plunges deeper into the pit his own demons have created and trapped him in. His journalist's curiosity becomes a compulsion as events bind him tighter and tighter, propelling him from New Mexico's stark high desert into an increasingly hostile wider world.
Murder, mystery, and redemption shape Pitcairn's struggle to answer the moral questions left festering by the killer's horrible crimes: What is the nature of evil? What choices do any of us truly have? How can we reconcile with our most painful wounds and the people who have inflicted them?
The Dark Side of Grace (Book 2)
Released May 1, 2023
A devastating terrorist bomb blast at a spiritual retreat outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, sends journalist Kevin Pitcairn and his beloved Emmy on a quixotic quest to understand the roots of violence. Traveling across the country deep into the bowels of Southern Appalachia, their search takes them through a long-standing rift in the American consciousness to confrontations with remarkable and anomalous characters, some of them deeply spiritual, others well-grounded in research and psychology.
In this sequel to the much-acclaimed A Killer’s Grace, Pitcairn and Emmy return to the exploration of innocence while adding to it a deepening understanding of injury and ordeal―and its amazing corollary of Post-Traumatic Growth. As the quest and its dangers rip their lives apart, doors open that lure them back and forth across the country in search of tendrils tying together the events and anguish, as well as bringing the protagonists more deeply together.
The Reckoning of Grace (Book 3)
Releasing September 14, 2025
In a world fractured by ideological division and cultural upheaval, The Reckoning of Grace offers a timely and powerful exploration of healing, resilience, and transformation. The third installment in Ronald Chapman’s Saga of Grace series (A Killer’s Grace and The Dark Side of Grace), this novel blurs the line between fiction and spiritual reflection, delving into the personal and collective struggle beneath today’s social unrest.
Investigative journalist Kevin Pitcairn and his beloved Maria Elena Maldonado - now leading voices in the Watching, a nationwide movement of silent, nonviolent resistance - find themselves under threat by those who view their message as a danger to the established order. When violence hits close to home, they are forced into hiding, guided by Father Anthony de Franco and a community of enlightened seekers.
As the nation reckons with its own divisions, Pitcairn and Maria Elena must face the inner wounds that echo the world’s turmoil. Their journey becomes one of post-traumatic growth, spiritual healing, and the pursuit of transcendence in the face of fear and betrayal.